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to set or cause to be at an angle
carefully canted the ladder against the wall
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Recent Examples of canting
Bill Springer, Forbes, 6 July 2021
Adjective
To achieve her extremely light displacement, the ClubSwan125 has a deep canting keel to reduce weight and increase righting moment.
—Bill Springer, Forbes, 6 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for canting
Adjective
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The series follows young teens Agnes, dutiful and pious, and Daisy, a new arrival and convert from beyond Gilead’s borders.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Jan. 2026
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Per the official logline, the series follows young teens Agnes, dutiful and pious, and Daisy, a new arrival and convert from beyond Gilead’s borders.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
26 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Inside the administration, the balance of power appears to be tilting away from the noninterventionists and toward the hawks — at least, for now.—
Matt K. Lewis,
Mercury News,
13 Jan. 2026
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The court’s four liberal justices at the time joined him over the other conservative justices’ dissents; Trump has since appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett to replace former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, tilting the court further in conservatives’ favor.—
Zach Schonfeld,
The Hill,
12 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The United States went to war in 2001 and 2003 with a very moralistic, very crusading view of war, a very black-and-white view that there were good guys and bad guys, and America would wield the swift sword of justice.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
10 Jan. 2026
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To rebuild a consensus, politicians must thus appeal to these swing voters by eschewing moralistic and globalist rhetoric.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2025
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The interior dining room, divided into two levels and connected by a slowly sloping ramp, could at first cynical glance register as backdrop.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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The town’s sloping main street, nestled in the craggy Wasatch Range, has practically become a symbol of the annual film gathering.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
21 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Lists are no substitute for criticism, but those who take them as inimical to criticism are pharisaical.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
6 Dec. 2022
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David and Samuel explore the U.S. energy sector and evaluate what the future holds in an ESG landscape that has done its very best to bring economic incoherence to its pharisaical agenda.—
Andrew Stuttaford,
National Review,
16 Jan. 2022
Verb
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The Post would not be the first right-leaning media in the state.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
2 Feb. 2026
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Look for a backward question mark leaning to the left that outlines the chest and head of the lion.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
1 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Fellow Democrats Tony Thurmond and Antonio Villaraigosa attack Swalwell and Porter as hypocritical, pointing to their own stricter stances on federal immigration enforcement.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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Democrats, who have routinely fought for stricter gun laws, flatly called the Republican stance on Pretti’s gun hypocritical in interviews with The Star.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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There’s nothing sanctimonious about insisting on civil rights for transgender people nor about fighting for racial justice.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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For those of us who’ve historically found Stause to be sanctimonious, passive-aggressive, and prone to playing the victim, there’s plenty in both her post and her behavior throughout the reunion to support that view.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Canting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canting. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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